English-Spanish translations for sensitive

• sensible
  Por lo tanto, esas zonas sensibles deben ser sensibles. These sensitive areas must therefore be sensitive.
  Los médicos son un tema muy sensible y la salud de las personas es un tema también muy sensible. Doctors are a sensitive issue, human health is a very sensitive issue.
  El agua es un tema muy sensible. Water is an extremely sensitive subject.
• sensitivo
• susceptible
  Porque es más susceptible a la soberanía, es más susceptible a los electores y a los ciudadanos. Because it is more sovereignty-sensitive it is more voter-and citizen-sensitive.
  Porque es político es más susceptible a la soberanía. Because it is political it is more sovereignty-sensitive.
  La vida de una abeja obrera es muy corta y muy susceptible a los cambios en el medio ambiente. The life of a worker bee is very short and very sensitive to changes in the environment.

Definition of sensitive

• Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses
• Responsive to stimuli
• Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting
• Meant to be concealed or kept secret
• Accurate; able to register small changes in some property
• A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive

Examples

• Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news
• Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates
• These are highly sensitive documents

Related words

• hypersensitive
• oversensitive
• insensitive
• photosensitive
• radiosensitive
• sensitively
• insensitively
• oversensitiveness
• context-sensitive